skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what could be today's alternative to the environments of LAN parties of early 00s (I never attended to previous ones).

Even if one were to recreate the events, I feel lots of the activities of these meetings (meeting the selected few gamers face-to-face, sharing media, and only finally gaming) are somewhat obsolete or not needed anymore.

Part of me wishes we still had these but that would mean removing lots of improvements and putting up barriers to entry to computers, games and the Internet.

Dunno, I might be rambling but perhaps one should just be happy to have been part of that scene back then and move on?

For me, the closest I got to that has been participating to hackathons (although many misses) even though those tend to be more stressful than the LAN parties.
First, this is a cool idea.

Second, are you doing moderation? What is your strategy for porn/illegal content? It often seems like that managing those practicalities kills services like these.
> It works just fine and their users self-report a preference for the simple algorithm.

Have you asked them recently? A lot of the criticism of Wanikani, including on its own forums, is describing it as a burnout machine because of a mix of the primitive SRS system and the level lockouts. Particularly since Anki has switched to FSRS and people are comparing the relative workloads.
It is now sorted on the categories section.

https://terminaltrove.com/categories/
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>All the "degenerate activities" you mentioned are a problem in the first place because in a scarcity-based society they slow down/prevent people from working

This is a weird take. Families are worse off if a parent has an addiction because it potentially makes their lives a living hell. Everyone is worse off if people feel unsafe because of a degenerate sub-culture that glorifies things like hijacking cars. People who don't behave in predictable ways create low-trust environments which impacts everyone.
- Articles from highscalability.com

- Videos and presentations from USENIX. Especially OSDI and NSDI

- Meta's Production Engineering blog posts

- Books in "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" series
Using speech to text you could say the answer and it could validate your answer. If AI engine is powerful enough it could have you say the foreign word and rate your pronunciation.

As for spaced repetition I developed an alternative which just has a column for number of times correct answer was given and order by descending order on that field. This gives you new words first followed by words you've barely gotten correct etc
You've unfortunately been posting way too many unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. We need you to stop this—it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

We've already had to ask you about this multiple times, and if you keep it up we won't have much choice but to ban your account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225621 (Nov 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37358816 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994995 (Aug 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35646889 (April 2023)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Camembert cheese compounds improve memory and learning
I feel like any class of seating except business suffers from that "near seat storage shortage". I tend to carry a soft sided satchel instead of a case for the reasons you state: it can be jammed pretty much anywhere
I’ve only used ChatGPT, so it’s possible Claude is miles better, but what happens if you respond to that answer with some nonsense like “What about Suzzie’s other sister?”

Does it tell you Suzzie has no other sister and stand by it’s answer?
If it does, how hard is it to convince that it was wrong in some way?

But also that’s not what I really meant. You’ve given it a logic puzzle with complete information. I meant a factual answer to a question that it doesn’t have good information on. Like ask it to explain why a character in an obscure book says a certain line. Or what a character is feeling in a certain scene. ChatGPT will give all kinds of wrong answers, and I’ll certainly be surprised if Claude does better.

Edit: I’ve actually used Claude now and it is a ton better at this than ChatGPT, but it still told me incorrect information about characters in a novel and couldn’t explain itself. But it is certainly more humble than ChatGPT.
This problem shows how antiquated military systems and thinking really are. Tracking, identifying and deciding on how to act for every thing in the sky, especially things advertising what they are from the second they take-off until they land, shouldn't be this hard. I for one am glad that militaries are actually so bad at their jobs that this can happen. Just imagine how scary they would be if they were actually good at this type of thing.
It seems noteworthy, but not commented that I can see (in the article), that the different samples of "Boba Guys Black Tea Pearls" have 20x variation in measured amount.

So what's up with that? (I have uninformed ideas...)
> the goal is for them to be independent variables in the statistical sense.

No, it isn't. The goal is for them to have high explanatory power. They aren't independent variables, and the fact that they aren't is a frequent criticism of them. But it's not relevant to whether they are useful descriptors or predictors.

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Li... :

> In many studies, the five factors are not fully orthogonal to one another; that is, the five factors are not independent. Orthogonality is viewed as desirable by some researchers because it minimizes redundancy between the dimensions.
Can you name projects at those companies which meet the description?
ideally you have a button on your mouse to summon this, and use it when you are already using your mouse, and summon a different interface for typing from your keyboard, when your hands are there
Does gravity overcome entropy?
> found by Russians

Well there you go, airtight proof.
And further, you never know if you'll like something until you try it. That's kind of universally true. The idea of going to a gym isn't appealing at all if you describe it objectively: you're going to go to a large room filled with heavy hunks of metal and sweating strangers. You're going to lift them up and down until you can't do it anymore. Then you'll drive home. That's not exactly appealing. And yet, despite everything, I love the way I feel when I'm working out.

It's perfectly A-OK not to like going to social outings with others. But until you've tried it, you don't actually know whether you like it or not.
I prefer the prediction that the US invades Greenland, triggering NATO’s Article 5 collective defense.
Oh yes that's just absolutely fanciful boasting by the Houthis.

The Houthis were probably not far off from claiming to have shot down the Ingenuity chopper which NASA lost on Mars . In reality they can't shoot down a Cessna 172.
Less of us should be discounting the value of investing in new, long-term friendships, in the second or third place we live, and stop discounting the impact of arbitrarily moving away for cheaper or more isolated pastures just because we work remotely. There's a threshold past which it's worth considering how much is worth it to remain, but for many it seems like a no-brainer financial consideration, and they don't really seem to have tried to integrate within their neighborhood, perhaps because they knew they'd eventually be forced out by the landed gentry. I'd personally never move back to my home city, I'm happy in the metropolis I moved to, but have put in a hell of a lot time and energy into forming a strong social circle and be present in my community, and I probably wouldn't throw that away just to own a house somewhere in the boonies, but I also wouldn't spend millions to get a 2 bedroom condo, so it's an awkward place to be in one's thirties.
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. We've unfortunately had to ask you this multiple times as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40852496 (July 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30643505 (March 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29214097 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27757258 (July 2021)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Why not just copy paste these chats and save them into a local file?

I mean I've been copying chats with my friends and saving them locally since the time online chats were called Instant Messaging.
Maybe people complain because Ukrainian government was caught lying too many times? Like when Zelensky announced that Russians killed all border guards on the Snake Island after one of them said "Russian warship, go f*ck yourself". Needless to say, the border guards were returned to the Ukraine alive a week or two later. [0] After learning that cold-blooded murder of the border guards was one big lie I discount 90% of Ukrainian reports of Russian atrocities.

Anyway, let me quote your source: "These are medical facilities in the de-occupied territories, as well as those that have suffered minor damage: broken windows, roof destruction, damage to the facade, etc. " Broken windows from blast waves hardly fit your claim of "destroyed hospitals and clinics".

Or take this one [0]:
"A few days before the attack, Ukrainian soldiers took up positions inside the nursing home, effectively making the building a target.

Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Russian forces assaulted a nursing home in Stara Krasnyanka in the eastern Luhansk region. "

What Ukrainian soldiers did was a war crime, but that case surely is somewhere in your number of medical facilities destroyed by Russians.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Island_campaign#Status_o...

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-zelenskyy-dismisses-ambassador...
Are we becoming a post-literate society?
I made a new programming language for the web and it comes with free hosting:)
I tried this with a larger project, and after looping through the obviously-fake progress messages for a couple of minutes, it resulted in “Failed to generate diagram. Please try again later.”
It’s mostly re-reticulating splines that I find annoying. By that I mean: running it all in a loop, endlessly - showing neither a result nor an error message.

But you’re right, reticulating splines and similar generic/comedic messages do have a long tradition.
I'm not proposing anything. I'm just pointing out when the government fails to lead/leaves a vacuum people can quickly turn to vigilantist/dumb type behavior and follow the first person/thought/idea that fills the void.

Here the government said 'the United States Coast Guard mistook some 747s far away for 12 drones following their boat and if it wasn't planes then actually we assessed the 12 drones and found they aren't a threat, we don't know what they are, whose they are, or were they came from' and expected people to just go, hmm, ok, nevermind then.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Government is there to help control/direct what it gets filled with when it's a societal one.
OpenAI has already built some of this but maybe it requires a paid account.

https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-chat-history-search-int...

It also has projects (says is for Plus, Team, and Pro users). https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-using-projects-...
NewAg is clearly acting with malice and sabotage in mind (as well as extortion), and when it comes to trains and railways this is not just a business matter, it becomes a strategic national security issue.

"Wouldn't it be a shame if the trains filled with perishable food stuffs stopped working in route..., and the harvests rot"

Do you know of any country where food security doesn't impact the government's ability to keep order?

If any non-service operator, did this, like a third-party, they would reasonably be considered a terrorist organization, and the members of such a cohort should be treated as such.

Even if the claim is made its only for small specific things which you had to agree to, its an inserted vulnerability into the supply chain that is both non-essential for regular function, which has been designed to be essential.

At a bare minimum, they pave the way for such groups even if they don't act on it themselves.
Good financial management(portfolio and personal) is a matter of disciplined routine, performed consistently over long timeframe, combined with impulse control. It is not complicated at all, any program (LLM or just a rules engine) will always do far better than we can because it will not suffer either problem(sticking to the routine or impulse).

Most humans make very bad decisions around personal finance, whether it is big things like gambling or impulse buys with expensive credit, to smaller items like tracking subscriptions or keeping not needed money in checking account etc.

This is irrespective of financial literacy, education, wealth or professions like say working in finance/ personal wealth management even.

Entire industries like lottery, gambling, luxury goods, gaming, credit card APRs, Buy Now Pay Later, Consumer SaaS, Banking overdraft fees are all built around our inability to control our impulses or follow disciplined routines.

This is why trust funds with wealth management professionals are the only way to generational wealth.

You need the ability to control any benefactor (the next generations) from excising their impulses on amounts beyond their annual draw. Plus the disciplined routine of a professional team who are paid to do only this with multiple layers that vet the impulses of individual managers and conservative mandate to keep them risk averse and therefore less impulsive.

If an program can do it for me (provided of course I irrevocably give away my control to override or alter its decisions) then normal people can also benefit without the high net worth required for wealth management.
Some discount airlines charge online booking fees
hmmm another "unicorn" from vancouver that bites the dust, i remember one with an owl as mascot logo can't recall what they did or their names but many ppl from vancouver mentioned it while ago.

I wonder why that place can't compete with American cities, i think even Toronto /Montreal is more successful than Vancouver.

for one the low salary must be demoralizing on top of being one of the most expensive cities in the world.

have there been notable canadian startup unicorn that turned IPO or major acquisition (100x ROI and up?) other than Shopify?

seems like nobody can really compete with America when it comes to creating IPOs and billionaires.
(2017) Site seems down (error message: "pipeline failure"), seems to be a copy here: https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/expected_utility_formalis...
Looks like it works now, although the diagram it generated is pretty watery.

It mis-judged that the "work queue system" is kind of off by itself, when in fact almost all of the important work in the engine goes through the work queue. It did do a good job of at least approximately figuring out the render pipeline stages. Somehow it thinks that "input processing" isn't related to the platform layer, which doesn't make any sense at all.

Seems like a pretty reasonable result for a weekend project, nice work :)
Ask HN: What are some impressive small features you've seen?
Wondering what impressive small features people have seen around, this can be for instance a text/hover effect, something being nicely interactive, etc, very small UX/UI improvements that make a big difference.
20x variation in their measurements of "Black Tea Pearls" (and 8x or so in the tea juice). Would have liked to see more reflection on that.

(I feel like I'm still seeing plastic straws for boba everywhere in San Jose; but I'm far from a frequent consumer)
Nothing is suppressed. It didn't generate content that you thought it would. Honestly, I believe what it generated is ideal in this scenario.

Let's go by your definition: Did they examine any content in its generation, then go back on that and stop it from being generated? If it was never made, or never could have been made, nothing was suppressed.
ChatGPT now lets you search old chats in the web app [Oct 2024]
that's a pretty bizarre angle. we're overlooking centuries of abuse because "it made my life easier"?

My grandfather couldn't de facto vote. These politics are not that far removed from any country.

>The politics of technology has only itself as its enemy

and the biases of the winners, yes.
In this case, probably? I'm not a fan of excessive regulation, for this particular problem, I don't see how it could be solved without some kind of "right to repair" law, or at least a "right to be thoroughly informed about repairability before buying" law. Even if copyright was scaled back to 20 years and explicit registration, that still would be long enough to screw customers. In fact, even if copyright didn't exist, the problem would still exist for devices that are hard to reverse-engineer.
Look up filters for ublock origin.

https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

Good luck!
The irony of this article being hidden by a paywall..
I never understood the appeal of all the gaudy gamer PC aesthetics, just as a piece of furniture you keep at home it looks ridiculous.

But thinking of it in the context of lugging your PC to a LAN party, now I'm picturing a fork of Fast and Furious but instead of all the tricked out cars revving their engines with their hoods popped, its a row of gamer PCs running DirectX benchmarks, and the length people go to make an original piece of art out of their motherboard suddenly make sense.
The bootloader is only unlocked for the first install, then locked again.
Looking forward to more testing like this. I've been trying to consciously avoid anything combining "hot" with "plastic" though there's only so much you can do.

Fish are aggregators of this stuff so that's not surprising. Spam and other processed meats and prepared foods also not too surprising (though what's with the Annie's organic mac and cheese being so full of it? Maybe it's the sauce?)... I think the tap water was the scariest one to me. Sure, you expect some but ... wildly unsafe levels?!
Ice cream strikes me as a lot healthier than boiled play-doh.
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I thought I was going out of my way to not be insulting. It has absolutely nothing to do with feeling superior. It has everything to do with the fact that I frequently encounter people who surprisingly don't seem to know things like this, and I wish for them to learn so they can avoid the mistake in the future.

I did not engage in the discussion because I had nothing further to contribute to it. I recognized that, and contributed what I could entirely orthogonal to that.
But here reliability comes in again. Calculators are different since the output is correct as long as the input is correct.

LLMs do not guarantee any quality in the output even when processing text, and should in my opinion be verified before used in any serious applications.
Yes of course. Intentional communities of like minded people are the alternative to atomarisation of strangers living next to strangers with fake smiles and talking behind the back as the standard social interaction.

Easier said then done, though in most cases, but worth it wherever possible.
Not sure if you’ll like it, but I also have this audio stream player for Windows and Mac: https://github.com/MaxGripe/koji-stream-player
And yet when data enters need power all day every day nuclear is the only solution. Even Bill Gates stop selling solar when it wasn't for the poors who probably don't need hot water every day anyway.
It's also just as simple as experiences. even if we could remove all bias, we don't know what we don't know. aspects like language barriers don't help either in terms of properly sharing such histories either.
Fatty acid amides present in Camembert cheese improved cognitive decline
Yes but I'm not talking about quantity of older people in total, I'm talking about what percentage of them get a disease.

With cancer, which is also more likely the older you get, studies show that the chances of dying from it are about 12% higher in the poorest counties than wealthier counties in the US. That is despite people in those counties having a shorter lifespan from all other things as well.

So my question in response to the parent's throwaway class warfare riff was: Given two people who survive to the same age, let's say 80, is one more likely to get Alzheimers than the other based on income? The article here would suggest otherwise, given that taxi drivers and ambulance drivers are among the least well compensated workers and yet strangely have 1/3rd the rate of Alzheimers.

[0] https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020...
That’s how a large percent of the Us seems to think too
If they’re sicker or weaker, they would be more likely to leave the city.

It is a difficult place for anyone, but especially for those with trouble climbing lots of stairs, handling icy surfaces, repeatedly shedding and putting on clothes, etc.

Or who are too old to sustain the illusion that their income is on an upward trajectory, and the current difficulties thus temporary.
I agree, but I also really like the pie menus. Personally, I'd like the ability to simply write to match, but otherwise working as demonstrated. E.g. like the Windows search works when you've hidden the search bar. I'd prefer both, in other words.
They were 'joint' because the Ukraine used a test range in Crimea that belongs to Russian Black Sea fleet based in Sevastopol. All launches were authorized by Ukrainians, Russians fired a single short-range missile and that's it. But, yeah, let's call it joint Russian-Ukrainian to shift the blame towards Russians.

You can read the details here using google translate if you like: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Катастрофа_Ту-154_над_Чёрным_м...
https://archive.is/Kp4ZV